We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

A planet called Cha 1107-7626 has been observed by astronomers absorbing gas and dust from the surrounding disc at a ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

A striking new chapter in space exploration has begun in Western Australia, where the European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled one of its most advanced ground stations to date. Situated just north of ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

NASA’s Juno probe, which revealed new details about Jupiter’s atmosphere and storms, may have stopped transmitting data after years of exploration.

A second deep space antenna opened in a tiny monastic town in Western Australia could help unlock the secrets of the universe ...

On Episode 181 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe, World Space Week Association's executive director, to discuss the global celebration of all things space, ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...